whew I made it

The 5K was rough. Since my foot had been healing I have not been going as far but I finsihed...no walking...time of 33.43. Next time I will do it in 30 MINUTES. My body will comply and I will accept no less. I am going to work hard this year!!!! I am going to work on a training program over the next week. I would be open to any suggestions on training....

MY MAN

Just wanted to include this picture of my handsome husband. He is at one of his favorite places...the woods. He loves to fish and tromp around in the woods. He will spend hours in the woods..hunting, fishing, rock hunting. I only will go with him in the fall...all the other times...there are too many bugs, its too muddy, its too hot...etc....He spends most of his weekends in the woods throughout the summer. Last summer I was whining (which unlike running I excel at) I whined "How come you never ask me to go" He reponds," Why don't you go with me today!" I respond VERY quickly, "Oh no it is too hot maybe another time!" Poor man he just can't win.

MY LOVELY BINGO PLAYING FAMILY

I am the one sitting on the couch. I am the bingo caller. The young lady that is appears to be disgusted during bingo time is actually having fun...she just has not yet had a bingo and Roger (my neices fiance had three bingos in a row). I am the one on the sitting on the couch. I got to be the bingo calller. We played White Elephant bingo. Which means everyone brings something from home that they no longer want and we use the items for prizes. We had much more family they were just in the other rooms.

Help! Sleep Eludes Me!

Ack! I can't sleep I am too excited and nervous. I know that a 5K is not much for most people but it is for Poor Kim! This is only my second run ever and I want so much to improve my time! Last time was 36 mins and a few odd seconds. However, I have alot against me...weight, sore foot, general sore muscles (got spunky in the weight room this week), and the run does not start till 9:00 am. That stinks because I am an early morning girl. My favorite time is 5:00 a.m. I am also depressed because I am one of the slowest woman out of our group at the Y. I do have one edge....the cold. The other woman hate the cold and I LOVE it. Maybe that will slow them down a little. The other day is was 21 degrees and all I had on was a short sleeve shirt and a hoodie...by the time I was done it was all I could do not to rip the hoodie off because I was hotter then heck. I only kept it on because I was all sweaty and did not want to catch a cold (which I still do not think is caused by that...but better safe then sorry). Okay I am going to post a picture of our Thanksgiving fun and then try to go back to bed. I am going to dream of fleet feet! I am going to dream of myself breathing well and staying strong! Does anyone know how long it will take my breathing to get under control??? I am sick sick sick of sounding like a three pack a day smoker when I don't even smoke! Sprints??? Patience? Both???? Also just to let you know how dedicated I am becoming...I gave up Christmas Shopping last night so I could rest my legs for today...now that is dedication!

Insanity, Gluttony and More

I have been advised that I have not blogged on matters of general interest so here we go:

Day after Thanksgiving Shopping: Yes I was one of the insane people that stood outside of Best Buy at some horribly early hour. However, my sister is much more insane then I am....she was outside Best Buy by 11:30 p.m. the night of Thanksgiving to save us a spot in line so that I could get a $150.00 computer. I did not get to Best Buy until 2:00 a.m. Oh my...my sister did suffer because it was colder then cold. At 11:30 Thanksgiving night there were already 55 people ahead of her. Because of my sister's ability to withstand the cold and her incredible zest for a bargin hunting I was able to purchase the $150.00 computer. However, as usually, our joy was struck down because BEST BUY inadvertently resold our computers. We had left them at Best Buy for the Geek Squd to upgrade our memory and somehow they thought they were extras and SOLD them. So now both my sister and I are awaiting Best Buy to deliver us two more computers. SIGH....it was just to good to work out easy! At any rate back to the incredibly cold weather. Some people actually had like a little campsite set up...complete with Kerosene heater as for the others all you saw were mounds of blankets with what I am assuming were human forms under them. What a site...next year if the lure of a bargin overtakes my common sense I am going to take pictures....what a sight. Denise did remark while waiting that our $150.00 computer might wind up being a $1000.00 computer after we pay for the doctor's bills, medication and hospitalization from catching pneumonia. (oops can't spell that big word). All that suffering and I still as of today do not have my $150.00 computer.

FUNNY COMMENT FROM MY MOTHER'S DOCTOR: Mother at Doctor's office. Doctor says, "Do you exercise". Mother "Why yes I do" Doctor says "Do you break a sweat" Mother responds: "I do not sweat" Doctor slam dunks her" Perhaps you should" Hahahahahahaah.
My Mother's Delusion: My mother thinks she is a princess... She was born to be a princess. I told her that not one woman in our family is "Hot" enough to be a princess.

Gluttony: I was very hungry the other day because it was past my lunch time. So when I was at Walgreens I bought some sugar free peppermint patties. I then proceeded to eat the entire bag ( I am a GLUTTON). I should have read the back of the bag. It clearly states,"Individuals sensative to sugar substitutes may experience a laxative effect." THE BAG TELLS NO LIES! Runner Susan if you read this don't bother spending more money on yourcolon cleansing product just buy some of the sugar free Peppermints. You can get them this week at Walgreens buy one bag for $1.99 get a second bag of one penny. I can promise your colon will be completely empty within 24 hours (painfully so). So once again I have harmed myself thru gluttony.

RUNNING and EXERCISE: Saturday is the 5 K Sleigh Bell Run. I am so excited. I want so badly to beat my time from last year. Last year was my first run and it took me 36 minutes and some odd seconds. This year would be wonderful if I could make it in 31 or 32 minutes. However, that is unlikely as my foot is just now allowing me to run outside. Poor Kim I was built for endurance not speed. I love to run I just wish I was better at it. However, I am very proud of my work in the weight room. I can now leg press over 220 pounds...woo hoo...I am going to have some kick butt legs. My husband says my calves are disgustingly muscular. I love it! I can kick open a door....( I actually did this in a fit of rage one time...but that was a long time ago before I started lifting so now I could probably kick a door in and make it fly off the hinges) hahahaha. I am much more in control of my temper now. I have channeled my inner rage and feel no inclination to kick doors in now. Just knowing I can is enough!

Poker: My sister defends herself (see previous post). I will no longer believe a word that comes out of her mouth while at a Poker table. I will win all at our next game. I am reading Texas Hold Em for Dummies! I will be "All in" next time.

Pets: My female dog will not stay off my bed. I put a baby gate up..she somehow wiggles under it.. I raise it she jumps over it. She walks past me in the living room..smirks at me and waltzs her little prissy butt up the steps to my room and if I have left my door open (which I always seem to do) she flops herself on my side of the bed. My male dog has taken control of my couch! He lies on my couch and refuses to move so I can sit down. The other day I was actually able to get to the couch first and laid down . He came up to me whined and pawed at me. I told him to go away I had the couch first and I was NOT moving. He actually jumped on top of me did that circling thing dogs do before they lay down and then LAID down on top of me. He would not move...my husband had to drag him off of me. Now if gets to the couch first which he almost always does I have to go to the kitchen and knock on the door then he goes all crazy running and barking to the kitchen door like a crazed lunatic and I have to RUN into the living room to throw myself on the couch to save my spot.. He is getting smarter...he saw me head for the living room, outran me, jumped on the couch and GROWLED at me. I think the dogs have overthrown me and now rule my house. I will probably end up sleeping in their nice soft dog beds I bought for THEM.

IS THIS CHEATING?

Ok here is the question...Is this Cheating? (Denise are you paying attention?)
Location: Kim's Kitchen Table
Participants: Me, My son James, Son's Fiance Tasha and my sister Denise
Activity: Texas Hold Em
We were playing Texas Hold Em. It was Denise's deal. Due to a comment made by my son which alluded to the size of the Poker Players ( I tried towrite about it but you just had to have been there when it happened) my sister says " Just for that comment I am all in and I haven't even looked at my cards" Seeing as I HAD looked at my cards I went all in because what was the chance of beating my hand without even knowing what she had and I had what I thought to be a fair to decent hand. Well guess what? Her hand beat both James and mine. Okay so here is where the question comes in. The next day while shopping she said she had a confession to make. Her confession...she MAY have briefly glanced at her cards. She says this is good poker playing and I say CHEATING! What is your take on this???
Lesson Learned: Do not trust your sister when she is at the Poker Table. The woman has NO MORALS when it comes to gambling...hahahahahaha

Okay aside from my sad pathetic poker playing I had an awesome Thanksgiving with my family. Lots of food!!! Ummmm. Because I did 4 miles on my treadmill Thanksgiving morning I accumulated a pie credit and could eat a big piece of pie for free. I will now spend the next 3 weeks working for Christmas food credit! My aim is to accumulate enough pie credits to eat an entire pie on Christmas Day.

This morning thanks to Bonnie and Mike I actually had to hustle on my run. Even though they went very slow for them it was very fast for me. I think every once in awhile I need to have someone to run with me to push me...because I am like an old pickup truck...don't look so good, don't run so good...but can eventually make it to where I need to be.

I am so tired I could cry!

I am finally sitting down and taking a 5 minute break. Since I got home I have done nothing but cook cook cook in preparation for our Thanksgiving feast. As soon as I am done complaining and whining on this post I am going to finish peeling the last of the 10 pounds of potatoes. I am so tired but I am going to push thru because the more I do tonight the less I have to do tomorrow. Yesterday had a great relaxing run. For the first time in awhile I can say I actually enjoyed it! I felt pretty strong, my breathing was much better (after the first mile that is) and I actually was getting into it. I was still slow but my body was much more cooperative Now maybe I can start gaining some ground. Today was swimming day, as I have said before, I HATE SWIMMING! I do it only because it gives my foot a rest! I have made progress now...I do not have to wear the bubble belt. I still stay within an arms reach of the wall (in the deep end) but I am BUBBLE FREE! I like to think I sink because of my awesome muscle mass. But when I shared this tidbit of information with my fellow swimmers they laughed at me!!!! Ha shows what they know....they just can't see my awesome muscle mass because I wear a shirt and shorts into the pool...so I won't intimidate them with my awesome physique.
Special Note to my Daughter and Daughter in Law and Soon to be Daughter in Law: If one of you girls don't come over here and learn how to do Thanksgiving dinner you are all going to starve or have to eat at MCL when I drop over dead!
KUDOS: To my mother who has been making a very strong effort at Power Hour Class! She acutally almost sweated this week. She is truly seeking her inner warrior. A big thank you to her heart doctor who layed it on the line for her.
How True How True: Taken from the WLFI website from Mr. Food. This perfectly describes my Thanksgiving experience:

'Twas the night of Thanksgiving, but I just couldn't sleep.I tried counting backwards, I tried counting sheep.The leftovers beckoned, the dark meat and white,But I fought the temptation with all of my might.Tossing and turning with anticipationThe thought of a snack became infatuation!So I raced to the kitchen, flung open the doorAnd gazed at the fridge, full of goodies galore!I gobbled up turkey and buttered potatoes,Pickles and carrots, beans and tomatoes.I felt myself swelling so plump and so roundUntil all of a sudden, I rose off the ground.I crashed through the ceiling, floating into the skyWith a mouthful of pudding and a handful of pie.But I managed to yell, as I soared past the trees,"Happy eating to all - pass the cranberries, please!"

Bye time to peel potatoes.

LIFE LESSON

Eating an entire box of Shredded Wheat over a weekend will give you one heck of a belly ache!

Knock Knock Knocking on Heaven's Door

How ironic that just as I felt like dying on my run this morning that Axel Rose's rendition of Knocking on Heaven's Door came on. I cann't believe how much ground I lost while recuperating my stupid foot! Now parts of my body are at war with each other: My brain is the instigator it starts out with "I am so excited lets go for a run. I need to feel the endorphins...no no don't worry about coffee you can have a cup when we get back...it won't take long" So my stupid body complies..... 1/2 mile down the road my lungs start screaming" Help Help we can't breath! Stop Stop we are burning!" Then my knee joins in, "Ugh you big lug I am not made of titanium", if that is not enough then my foot starts yelling "Hey you big pig lose 20 more pounds your killing me down here" The then instigator turns traitor and starts whining" You didn't even let me have a cup of coffee" So then all the body parts joined forces and made me miserable the entire run!
ENJOYABILITY FACTOR FOR THIS MORNING: 0
PREDICTED OUTLOOK FOR TOMORROW'S ENJOYABILITY: 0
On the upside though I did finish without walking and even did sprints back the last 1/2 mile.

Yes as you can see I am in top whining moan! So lets see do I have anything else to whine out....hmmmm I believe I do! The house next door has been sitting empty for more then two years and we not seem to have a little mouse problem. I have set traps and that was pretty effective for awhile. However, the mice must have lost their craving for peanut butter and/or cheese because now the don't touch the traps...I know their still in my laundry room because they are still leaving their little calling cards. Blah! I have called the city and they still have done nothing about the house next door! Meanwhile my house is like a little mouse buffett (on account of my dogs and their dog bowls).

Updates:
Christmas Shopping: Ahhh it is only 5 days till BLACK FRIDAY! Enough said!
Thanksgiving: Food bought, Menu planned, House NOT CLEAN. (The upside is that my family does not care if it is clean as long as I have enough pie! I LOVE MY FAMILY FOR THAT!)
Birthdays: Today starts the parade of birthday cakes. My daughter's birthday is actually Thanksgiving day but we are doing it tonight. Then we have birthdays in the family the following days, Dec. 5, 7, 9, 18, and 22. Also throw my boss's birthday in that list too! I HATE birthday cake by the end of December as do my jeans.
Sleigh Bells" The 5k Sleigh bell run is December 3 and I believe I am recouped enough to handle it. Though the outlook on improving my time is dim as I am still very gentle with my foot.

WHATS UP WITH THE CARDIO?

I think my little hiatus (injured foot,despite doing other cardio work) has definetly put me behind. I only did 3.8 miles yesterday and thought my breathing would never get under control) It was all I could do to talk myself into finishing but finish I did. My legs weren't tired it was all the cardio thing (and a little mental). I tried to justify it by telling myself it had been 14 hours since I ate last...I am recovering still from oral surgery and foot injury...excuse excuse excuse!!!!I feel like I am starting all over which bugs the heck out of me since I have a 5k on December 3. I am also on the heavy side for doing this! I really really need to get off at a mininmum of 10-15 pounds. I probably should start measuring all my food again....BLAH. I am going to clean my house this morning and then just do a couple miles then do maybe 5 miles on my bike. Sometimes I feel like I will NEVER obtain my goal of being able to do a 1/2 marathon!!!! I guess not this May but I have targeted next May 2007 I am going to work for it with a PASSION! In the meantime I think I am ready to work on some sprints maybe that will help bring my cadio back to life....the only thing is it STINKS doing sprints by yourself. Maybe I can talk someone at the Y into helping me!!! My problem is the people there are either to advanced for me and the others are strictly walkers. There seems to be NO ONE at my level!
Updates:
Wedding: My daughter was married on Thursday evening...congrats to Lucas and Kendra. I am very happy and glad that they are marrried! My daughter and I have had our rough patches (Hey Kendra...you and I could probably do a entire blog devoted to nothing but mother/daughter conflict.hahaha). Maybe instead of yelling at each other over the phone we should set up a blog and just post our rude thoughts about each other there! Hahahahahah
We are having scheduling conflicts but hope to have reception within 30 days.
Grandchildren: Baby Shower today for the littlest princess in our family....the eldest princess (see wedding update) willl soon have a little princess to train!!!! Eldest Princess is waiting for mother (me) to keel over so she may inherit my title as "Queen". Queen refuses to keel over and will retain her title till she is 120 years old!!!!! Tough Luck Eldest Princess! Grandson Tyson will be at the baby shower today to help celebrate his little sister! I tell you that kid has a sense of humor! I love spending time with him because you never know what is going to come out of his mouth. He cracks me up. He is going to be happy next time he comes to my house because I added a new Ninja Turtle to the toybox and it came with a DVD also.
Nieces: Okay Amber time to get back to Power Hour and congrats on your weight loss. Just remember to keep it healthy! I love you and you are doing awesome...keep working at school. We all know you are brilliant we just wanna see it on paper. Cute story about Abby who is 3 yrs old): When I kept her overnight we went to Boo at the Zoo where we went on the enchanted train ride with assorted nursey rhyme themes to watch. We were at the Little Miss Muffett scene where Miss Muffitt was of course eating her curds and whey...when along came the spider...and landed on her head...sending Ms. Muffitt into spastic fit of fear....when Abby spoke up (making all the people on the train laugh their butts off)..and said "Why didn't she just smash the spider." Now that people is a future STRONG woman!!!!!!
House: Still messy...still don't care
Dental: Feeling better....still grossed out but adapting! Back to the dentist on Tuesday for deep cleaning and who knows what other kind of painful dental torture. FYI: The tooth fairy does not visit woman over 40 so don't bother!
Christmas: Have shopped myself into a Christmas frenzy. I have made a Master Christmas List and have it color coded for gift ideas, gifts purchased, gifts purchased and wrapped. I even have a little Christmas Code Legend at the bottom of my list. I think I have finally gone over the Christmas deep end. No doubt when I do keel over (see Grandchildren update for that timeline), they will find my body amid wrapping paper and bows with my Master Christmas List clutched to my chest in my cold dead knarled up hands.

Thats all for now folks...probably way more then you wanted to read but hey it is 6:15 am on Sunday morning I have no family members or friends that will allow me to call them this early and my newspaper is not here so what else do I have to do????? Whats that??? Did I hear someone say get my big butt out on the road and run..... Hmmm guess it is that time....Bye for now!

SLACKERVILLE

Yes I am a citizen of slackerville. My house is a mess, my filing at home is overflowing my "to be filed basket", my kitchen floor is disgusting, my check book is unbalanced (as I am), my yard is beginning to look like the Munster's yard, and on top of all that I have hit a weight and exercise plateau.
I have decided I need to muster up some major enthusiasm. I think I need some good old fashioned drill sargent to scream in my face to get me moving. I did move a little faster and farther this weekend on my run, when the police officer followed beside me to let me know there were 2 rottweilers running loose and I should take a deter. So I took a one mile deter and that was just to much for my foot and now it is tender. I was only going to do 3 1/2 ended up doing 4 1/2 on account of the vicious dogs. Hmmm that is a thought a drill sargent with vicious dogs NOW that would get me going and probably solve that little plateau problem.
I did successfully manage to stay away from CEREAL this weekend. I swear I am like a junkie when it comes to breakfast cereal. Once I have that first bowl I am thinking about my next "fix". So I have decided to go cold turkey on the cereal. It is just not normal for one woman to eat a jumbo box of Golden Grahams in two days!!! Yeah Kim!!! (not for eating the entire box...but for not eating ANY cereal this weekend)

Engagement Update. My son a/k/a blogger name BIG DADDY, got engaged during his vacation. Oops that does not sound right. He did not find a girl while on vacation and got engaged but rather he took the girl he already had on vacation and proposed to her. Welcome to the family Tasha! You gotta love a girl that does not get shaken when a family member says" I want the flaming head on a stick." (Inside warped family humor...you had to be there).

All I want for Christmas are my two front teeth!

PHRASE OF THE DAY: "Rinse and spit please"
Merry Christmas to me! However, Santa was exteremely generous and supplied me with FOUR new teeth. I must say oral surgery is disgusting...especially if you are awake and get to see him stitch up your mouth with what appears to be fishing line and a hook. I now know how a Trout feels. At any rate I am over and done with that and now only have four quads of deep cleaning and I will be done. I have taken an oath that I will do whatever the dentist requires of me for dental hygiene. The only worry I have is loosing my partial during power hour class and have it skid across the gym floor. The dentist has advised me that that is an irrational fear (one of many) and they are going to stay put and when I get my implants I will be in excellent condition. Thank you thank you to my daughter who was quite kind and took care of her mother while she recovered from her oral surgery. Aside from the remark they made about sneezing my partial out my daughter and husband were quite compassionate oh and also the hysterical laughing about my valium stupor. I fired my husband as my nurse and my daughter's employment as my personal nurse is on shaky ground!!!!!!

Okay enought about the yucky yucky dental stuff.... I am having NO foot pain still and it is awesome. I am going to gradually increase my mileage and if all goes well hope to be back to where I was within 12 weeks or so (6-7 miles). I also need to get off these last 25 pounds but I have to get control of my weekend food to do that and with the holidays coming up it is gonna be tough.

Wedding Update: My daughter will be getting married on November 10, 2005. So I welcome my new son in law to the Family. He is a great guy and I love him like he is my son!!!! And now he will be!!! ACTUALLY he is NICER TO ME THEN MY OWN DAUGHTER HAHAHAAH Is that because they are not married yet? Will that change after they are married and he knows I am stuck with him???HMMM we will see. He has to at least be nice to me till Christmas to get his awesome Christmas gift.

Baby update: My granddaughter is expected to arrive January 12, 2006. A little more then 8 weeks away! I am giddy...I am thrilled...I am joyous....I can't wait till she gets here! No name yet...though I love the name Olivia but I have been voted down...any suggestions???? And this is one lucky baby because she is going to have the most awesome big brother!!!!

I AM BAAAACK

Finally at long last my foot pain has take a leave of absence...permently I hope! Sunday I did 4 miles and today I did 3 1/2 miles (alot less the what I was running preinjury but that's okay)then swam for 45 minutes!!!! NO PAIN. My joy knows no bounds!!! However, the downsize is that I have lost my power of concentration. Every single mile is not physically painfully but it is most certainly mentally painful. I was going to run tomorrow but because the first thought in my head this morning was "Oh my God I am so glad I don't have to run." I decided to punish my traiterous body and make it go whether it liked it or not! I was okay at the end and hope that I can get my mind back in tune with my body. Before my body would give out before my mind...not it is the other way around....I prefer it the other way!!! I hope know one was listening to me this morning because I argued with myself outloud the entire 3 1/2 miles (truely I did...people probably thought I was a nutcase). My mind kept saying stop stop walk and so I called myself a wienie, baby and slacker and advised my mind that it had better shut the heck up or I would really give it something to whine about...perhaps 30 minutes of walking lunges with the body bar or even worse continually seal walking across the gym.

After all this recovery I have a new found respect for my body and now when it says it hurts I will listen to it and not try to push thru pain because I have lost a lot more ground by prolonging the healing then if I would have just given it a rest when it first started.

Tomorrow is my oral surgery day. I am going to the Y to exercise before my surgery then I am coming home and popping a valium and waiting for daughter to pick me up and deliver me to the Den of Pain and Agony. The dentist has prescribed some valium because I am a big baby when it comes to dental work. My plan is to take valium all day tomorrow, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and sleep my way thru the healing process!!!! I told my husband just wake me up long enought to pour some nourishment down my throat and shoot another valium down my throat and I'll be good to go.

Advise for the Day: Don't run and swim in the same day because it will GIVE you a HUGE appetite.

Our Halloween Fun Time

POPCORN AND MOVIE COMA

YOU PLAY YOU PAY

Well I am back from my trip to Schaumburg where I did LOTS of Shopping (shopping=lots of walking b/c had no car) and even more DESSERT EATING! I went with my sister because she had to go on a business trip and did not want to go alone. We had a wonderful time!!! I did very good with food till dinner time and then we had a DESSERTS EVERY NIGHT (and they were NOT tiny desserts...they were lumber jack size desserts)...ymmmmmm. However, now as the old saying goes "You play you pay" I am now suffering the consquences of my excessive consumption of desserts. I did 4 miles this morning and thought I was going to DIE ! By the time I hit my home street I thought I was going to hurl all over the place. I was cramping and my head hurt and of course my foot was throbbing. I am a mess and no amount of treadmill work or precor replaces the great outdoors....I don't care what they say! So after I get my oral surgery out of the way on Thursday I am going to work my butt off (and my thighs and my gut etc...) On the upside I believe my foot is on the way to recovery. I still take Naproxen and ice it after using it but the pain has dramatically decreased. I was actually able to make it thru my boot camp class with very little discomfort and that was with running sprints and doing jacks. However,this morning after pounding on it for 4 miles it did throb. My foot is screaming "No more desserts you big pig I can't take anymore weight on me!" So I guess before consuming desserts I should consult all parts of my body not just my stomach.

This has been such a busy week because after I returned from my trip, I kept my grandson and my neices over night friday, where we went out to dinner and to Boo at the Zoo and then came home to watch our favorite Halloween movie Nightmare Before Christmas...they ate LOTS of popcorn and stayed up late. The next morning we got up made Mickey Mouse Pancakes, Eggs and Sausage and orange juice. We then went to the free movie and ate yet more popcorn. Then we came home and played some board games and bingo (for prizes...their favorite). At 3:00 our day together ended and they went home after having a fun time.. and I wasTIRED from our fun time (but I had a great time with some really great kids! I have decided that mothers 40 and older that have young childen must surely take some kind of upper to keep going on a daily basis.

The Amazing Stomach Stretching Woman!

Well Sunday I did 2 1/2 miles and had nothing more then a little tenderness in my foot.! However, I did find that it is difficult to bike after running! I ran and then climbed on my bike thinking "Alrighty this will be a piece of cake" Ha! I could barely make my legs move!!! Monday...went back to power hour, Tuesday did 30 minutes on the precor and lifted, Wedneday swimming....and then spent the rest of the day walking and walking and walking at the Covered Bridge Festival. Probably should have taken today off or at least should have done something lower impact in sympathy for my poor recovering plantar facitis but NO...not me... I decide yes I will run after I lift. I did 3 miles and my foot, while not extremely sore, is much more tender then on Sunday...no doubt from the excessive walking on Wednesday at the Festival and then running on it Thursday. Running was most difficult today as I was not just carting my self around but also several pounds of guilt...see next paragraph for details on guilt pounds! Tomorrow back to Power Hour and Saturday will be my day of rest.

Now back to the covered bridge...there is nothing better then eating and shopping...both of which I overindulged with on Wednesday. My sister, my son's girlfriend and I went together and I had a wonderful time. Oh I ate..how I ate...I ate desserts all day long. I had desserts for breakfast, snack, lunch, dinner and snack again. Now my poor poor stomach is all stretched feeling and it feels bruised and bloated and I swear it has stretched out so much from the amount of desserts I consumed that my stomach is scraping the floor when I walk!. I ate so much that I could not even do the abdominal crunch machine this morning! I will pass out if I see another dessert anytime soon. My sister and Tasha had to take an oath of silenceon how many desserts I can stuff down my throat in an eight hour period. I think I should be showcased in the Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum! I am truly a freak of nature. If you have ever watched Charlotte's Web remember when Templton went to the Fair...well that was me at the Covered Bridge Festival. Except for I can eat like 100 times more then Templton...he was such an amature.

Usually my free food day is Saturday however because of my large consumption of dessserts during our little road trip I have to give up Saturday. Now I will suffer ALL weekend because I have no treats to look forward to and I have to get thru all next week till the NEXT Saturday before Glutenous Kim can come out to play.

High Falootin Woman

Phrase of the Day: "Do you have a stool sample with you?"
Yes I am a high falootin woman and I live a glamerous life......6:30 this morning I was wandering around my yard looking for a fresh stool sample to to take to the vet. Why don't you ever see woman on TV doing this gross stuff? My life is not like desperate housewives. No adultry, deaths, or intrique...just stool samples, dust and dirt.
The vet was just the start of a fun filled day...I must now go to the grocery store to buy my vegatables and fruit, then back to home to battle dirt and grime. I think I may surrender to the dirt and grime because there is NO WAY I am ever going to win!!!! So I should just wave my white flag and sit on my porch and drink lots of coffee.
Tomorrow tomorrow I get to run!!! Hurrah for me!!! I am only going to do 2 miles to make sure I do not blow my foot out!!!! Yesterday I jogged around the gym a little bit during power hour class with no more discomfort then when I walk so guess I am ready to hit it. I am going to tape my arch and support my ankle with an ankle brace. I think 2 Sunday's ago when I did the 4 1/2 miles my foot hurt so badly because: 1) Wore totally the wrong shoes/with NO support, 2) Did not tape my arch up, 3)did not wear my ankle brace 4) took the hillest route I could find (heard hills are hard on a healing plantar facititis)and 4) went too far for my first time out in 2 weeks. By the time I was done on Sunday I could barely walk the pain was so intense. So I am sooooo excited to get out on the road tomorrow. The only bad thing about running on Sundays is that my husband has to poke me awake in church CONSTANTLY. Told him if the Pastor talked louder and maybe yelled into his microphone "Kim in Row 4 WAKE UP YOU HEATHEN" I would stay awake. Well off to my glamerous life....do you think it would have been nicer if I had worn heels and a dress when gathering my stool sample????

A Work in Progress

Well here I am now! A work in progress. I have still have a ways to go but boy do I feel better. I thank all my family for all the support and tolerance (as I have become a tad bit obsessive). Thank you mother for your constant love and encouragement. I thank my Y family for their encouragement as I strive for my fitness goals. I thank the nurse that told me I was a walking stroke...which pushed me onto the path of health recovery. Thank you to Melissa for not killing me the first six months when all I ever did was complain how my lunches. Thank you to Julie at the Y for her constantly reminding me that "Yes you can do it!" She is an awesome fitness leader!!!! Thank you to Mike at the Y for helping me through my first run...A special thank you to my husband for : driving (unknowingly to me) thru all the cross roads on the sleighbell run (my first run) to make sure I did not pass out on the route, learning to eat vegtables with me,giving up his Friday night Pizzas, listening me to rattle on and on about my classes at the Y and my athletic shoes, letting me spend $$$$ on shoes, shoes, shoes, pretending to be interested when I tell him the routes I have run (at least sort of running!), and most of all for just loving me! It is hard work and I could not have made the progress I have without all the love and support from my husband, my mother, my children, my sisters, my neices and all my other family, friends and coworkers!!!
Some of my favorite weight loss phrases : my niece Amber hugged me and said, "Aunt Kim I can get my arms all the way around you." My daughter "Gross Mom I can see your collar bones". My grandson Tyson "You're not as round anymore" Y instructor Julie, "Take it up to jog",

PRE YMCA KIM

Only 2 more days!

Yeah in 2 days I get to attempt to run again! I promised myself I would do no more than 2 miles then I would bike 6. I can't wait! Did the Precor this morning because I could not spend another day with the unending hunger that swimming gives me. Tuesday I was practically in tears I was so hungry!!! and I ate oh I ate. I started out pretty good...the usually egg beaters/fat free cheese and cottage cheese and baby carrots for breakfast (my standard monday thru Friday Breakfast) for snack I had probably two servings of pretzels and some more baby carrots, for lunch I had a big apple, turkey sandwich on carb control bread, big bowl of cauliflower, celery and red peppers with 2 tablespoons of light ranch dressing, after lunch had a cup of sugar free international coffee, still hungry had some MORE pretzels, then at 3:00 had another apple, then consumed and entire bowl full of sugar free jello, for dinner I had cajun fish (baked)some steamed shrimp with garlic, 1/2 cup mac and cheese, carrots and greenbeans...didn't eat after dinner but sure wanted to... I have decided that swimming is hazardous to my diet and should be banned from my program!
Today I was much more controlled...of course I did not swim!!! However, my sugar took a noise dive today and I barely made it back to my office from my afternoon walk. By the time I got to my office my hands and legs were shaking and I was sweating like a pig (and let me tell you seeing me sweat...it aint pretty...just ask the people at the Y)had to drink and entire can of sprite before the shaking stopped. Blah I think I need to check my sugar more often...quite a change from a year and a half ago when it was way to high!!!
******Warning****** IF A CERTAIN SOMEONE ( I will give you a hint as to her identity...she goes by the name SLUG a/k/a Mother) DOES NOT GO TO THE Y TO EXERCISE WHEN I AM OUT OF TOWN IT WILL BE A FULL 6 MONTHS BEFORE I GO OUT TO LUNCH WITH HER!!!! I WILL GO TO LUNCH at RED LOBSTER AND THEN TELL HER ALL ABOUT THE DELICIOUS COCONUT SHRIMP SHE MISSED OUT ON. I WILL GO TO LUNCH AT PEPES AND PHOTOGRAPH MY DELICIOUS LUNCH AND EMAIL THE PICTURES TO HER TO TORTURE HER. I WILL GO TO PIZZA HUT BUFFETT AND BRING HER BACK AND EMPTY PIZZA BOX THAT REEKS OF PIZZA!!!! I WILL MAKE MEATLOAF DINNERS AND BRING PIECES TO FLAME AND FEED IT TO HIM IN FRONT OF HER....I AM STILL THINKING OF OTHER TORTOROUS THINGS I CAN DO TO HER!!! I think that a mere three hours of exercise is NOT worth six months of torture: 3 hours of exercise v. 4,320 hours of torture...hmm which would you choose..tossing my head back...evil laughter hahahaahahah

blah to swimming

More swimming today! Blah I HATE swimming but I hate not exercising more then I hate swimming. So up and down the pool I went looking pathetic with my little floatation devices! The swimmers are all swimming past me and I felt like the rat in Alice the Wonderland that was swimming in Alice's river of tears. Soon soon I will be on the road.. at least I feverently hope! Ready for another day of swimming tomorrow.

One More Week

One more week and I should be able to hit the pavement again. Got my spiffy new motion control shoes and rigid inserts. Now I am just waiting for some of the bruising to go away and I will be off.... I spent 35 minutes on the Precor and burnt around 450 calories. Good workout I put it in resistance 20 the last 5 minutes to give my calves a nice hard workout and it was like trudging thru kneehigh mud!! What an awesome burn!!!After that I joined the last 45 minutes of power hour class and she burnt our arms out!!! Now I am sore all over...it feels great. I have am so excited to hear about stories of the Chicago Marathon from Susan and Mike. Needless to sayI am green with envy!!! Oh well! I guess since a year and half ago I weighed 289 pounds I should be greatly appreciative that I am now 168 and able to do a 10k on a good day. However, I have NOT had a good day for awhile because of healing fallen arches! It pains me greatly to see runners on the road and I am stuck on the stupid Precor or in the pool. I have determined from seeing many pictures of runners that at 168 I am still to heavy..granted I have increased my muscle mass (my son says my biceps are scary looking) tremendously but I am still struggling because that is still alot of weight to be dragging down the road. So I have determined that I must gain control of my weekend food. I am a compliant diabetic Monday thru Friday but somehow Saturday and Sunday are horrible for me. I ATE an ENTIRE box of Golden Grahams over the weekend!! What a glutton I am. I know if I get my weekend food under control I could get 20 pounds of fairly quickly. So now I am going to focus and buckle down get that weight off and work on my running so I am not turtle slow. I will be working on posting some more pictures of preexercise Kim...
OH and BIG KUDOS TO MY MOTHER FOR HER AWESOME EFFORT AT POWER HOUR this morning...YEAH MOMMY!
Just a Thought: I remember when I first started my weight loss journey that I was just so sick of being referred to as that short heavyset woman..the other day I heard somebody asking about me at the front of the my office and they said "Where is that short lady that sits up front?" What do you think of that??? I lost an adjective!!!

Poor Poor Kim

I have never added a picture before so hope this works. I am sitting on the couch with my mother and the young man is my handsome son Brad! This is not me at my largest but it is the first picture I came across. It is very hard being large. Simple things that people take for granted our difficult. Tying your own shoes...had to put my foot off to the side to tie or put my foot on a chair..turning over in bed, fitting in the seats of the Elliott Hall of Music...etc. My Dad referred to me as BBW which is BIG BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.

Up and Running!

Yep we are up and running...at least my computer is. I am still in a healing process but probably one more week and I am on the road again...Finally! I have had tons of problems with the feet. My arch fell in my right foot and I did nothing to address the issue. Just keept running on it trying to run out the pain. Then of course pain moved into the ankle. I was hobbling around...had to use the POOL and PRECOR blah. Thru a referral from my awesome Y friend I went to a Sporting Goods store on the west side and he told me I was wearing totally the wrong kind of shoes. Which I should have figured out because my foot and ankle were hurting more then ever. I got some nice Brooks with awesome side support and a insert for a rigid arch support. Immediately my ankle was not hurting. However the side of my foot is tender which the salesman said he thought would go away if I rested for a week and ALWAYS wore shoes with my inserts and to NEVER go barefoot. I feel so much better. I have to take a week off and just do Precor and swimming and then I am ready to go out next week. Can't wait because the weather is awesome!!! P.S. My husband will kill me but I bought TWO pair of new running shoes...even though I have two that are less then six weeks old. However, in all fairness I can't wear the other shoes because they kill my feet.
P.S. For all those that think if your feet are really killing you...extra cushioning shoes are not always the answer sometimes they make your feet worse. Salesman said common mistake most new people make!

What an awesome day!!!

What a great morning! Went to the YMCA ( I love my Y friends) My jog was actually fun and I felt strong strong strong. Mentally I could have ran to the ends of the earth...unfortunately my body did not have the same opinion. Toby Keith has a song called "As Good as I Once Was" there is a line in there that says more or less "My body says no you can't...but my mind says yes I can" I decided that is my theme!! The mind is oh so willing but the body is oh so weak!!! It would be nice if my body would somewhat catch up with by mind!!! At any rate it was a great morning!!! Mid morning so so...had to go down to the coffee shop and get my a jumbo cup of coffee for a kick start....it did not work...but I recouperated nicely by the end of the day...made a dinner my husband was less then thrilled with..Pork Spareribs, Steamed white rice, broccoli, sauteed mushrooms and watermelon...perfectly healthy meal till he doused his rice with butter, brown sugar and white sugar...oh well at least he ate it. Cleaned out my dog's ears...always a glamerous job, and mopped the kitchen floor. I also had a suprise visit from my one of the mother's I use to do daycare for. Miss Molly's mom, Marilyn. Wonderful woman! Well that is all for a boring day in the life of Kim!!! More fun tomorrow!!!

Blah Heat

Oh my gosh it was so hot outside this morning! I made it to the six mile mark and then had to walk my tired, hot rear all the way home...which was about mile or so down the road! I actually thought I was going to be sick!!! Made it home though. Picked up Ty and keeping him for the day while Brad and Nat works. He has a soccer game at 2:00..poor kid he is going to be exhausted when done. Tomorrow is suppose to be fall like weather and I am anxious for that. I love a cool crisp day...gets my nesting urge all pumped up.

TGIF

Had a great workout this morning at Power Hour. Though took it kinda of easy because my foot and ankle is still a little tender. Took a 1/2 day and went to a movie with my grandson Tyson. Ate lots of popcorn. Mom came over for dinner and I pumped her full of vegtables, corn on the cob, greenbeans and a zucchini, squash, tomato, onion blend. I remember a year and a half ago I was gagging on vegtables now I eat them with gusto..granted not the same gusto I eat golden grahams with but pretty close. Having a fish fry with my daughter and her fiance tomorrow night. And I will spending most of the weekend with one of my favorite guys...Tyson. He is a fun fun grandson. Being a mother was wondeful but being a grandma is fun. Looking fowards to having lots more grandchildren.

round two

One more try then I swear I am done for the night.

I am going to go nuts!

Okay I am a complete idiot when it comes to trying to set this up. This is my last try for tonight!